We have been having too much fun!! On Thursday we heard that we had planning permission, subject to moving our driveway 2ft to the right, and that John had got a promotion for next year. So these bits of news were celebrated at Chateau Mygo. We just popped in for a sundowner at 5pm and didn't get back to the boat until midnight. On Friday it was my birthday and I had chosen to go to an Indian restaurant in Rodney Bay. It was great, just like a UK indian meal! Yesterday we had a planning meeting with our builder, Mr Brown, which was very exciting as we are now talking about real building in the next few weeks, once we have electricity to the site and the site hut is erected.

After our meeting, a local guy called Alex, who now lives in London, had arranged for six of us to go on his fishing boat down the coast to a deserted beach for a BBQ. It was a lovely sandy beach, with BBQ already set up and goat and fish on the menu. We had cold boxes full of beer and cokes and a couple of bottles of rum. The guys who normally fish on the boat were there to help out, both rastas, and they quietly got stoned and chilled as the afternoon wore on. The weather was glorious and there were trees to sit under that allowed a little shade. One of the highlights was a small 8 week old puppy that smelt the food and hung around for scraps. She was so cute, I'm surprised she didnt come home with us but Jeff was firm and handed her back to the owner just before we left. We got back to Marigot at sundown, so all had more beers to watch the sunset with.

We were thinking it's time to dry out for a while, but our friend Gordon Paton is flying in this afternoon and we have tickets for the England New Zealand match on Friday, so it could prove difficult this week. Next pictures should be of a contruction site - watch this space!